Rogerella is a small pouch-shaped boring (a type of trace fossil) with a slit-like aperture currently produced by acrothoracican barnacles. These crustaceans extrude their legs upwards through the opening for filter-feeding.[2][3] They are known in the fossil record as borings in carbonate substrates (shells and hardgrounds) from the Devonian to the Recent.[4]
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| Rogerella |
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| Rogerella elliptica borings in a Middle Jurassic (Callovian) crinoid stem (Matmor Formation, southern Israel). |
| Trace fossil classification |
| Ichnofamily: |
†Rogerellidae |
| Ichnogenus: |
†Rogerella
de Saint-Seine, 1951 |
| Type ichnospecies |
Rogerella lecointrei
de Saint-Seine, 1951 |
| Ichnospecies[1] |
- R. arbiglandensis (Smith, 1910)
- R. caudata Voigt, 1967
- R. caveata (Tomlinson, 1963)
- R. cragini Schlaudt & Young, 1960
- R. davenporti (Tomlinson, 1969)
- R. elliptica (Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958)
- R. elongata (Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958)
- R. lecointrei de Saint-Seine, 1951
- R. linii (Hyde, 1953)
- R. mathieui de Saint-Seine, 1955
- R. oostoma (Seguenza, 1879)
- R. pattei (de Saint-Seine, 1955)
- R. polonica (Bałuk & Radwański, 1991)
- R. sacculus (Mägdefrau, 1937)
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| Synonyms[1] |
- Seminolithes Hyde, 1953
- Zapfella de Saint-Seine, 1954
- Brachyzapfes Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958
- Simonizapfes Codez in Codez & de Saint-Seine, 1958
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